Meet Our HS Coaches

Makayla Jones-Klausing 

Hello! My name is Makayla (Mak) Jones-Klausing and this will be my second season coaching the Stars. If I seem familiar, it’s because I was a coach during our 2022 season! I was living in Colorado briefly for 2023, and am very excited to be back home gearing up for our 2024 season. I started playing Ultimate Frisbee in high school - and was lucky enough to be a part of the original members of St. Louis Park High Schools Ultimate Frisbee team - Crush. It was love at first pull - and I’ve been privileged enough to grow and learn through many club experiences. Starting with the U20 Women’s YCC team, later my college team at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. During my summers I played on both womens and mixed teams which were always a lot of fun. Outside of frisbee I also play hockey, snowboard and am currently working at a vet clinic and am taking classes to apply to vet school this upcoming Fall. 

My favorite part about coaching is seeing the growth that each player experiences from the start of the season to the last game of State. I am excited to get to coach GRS again and am looking forward to everything this season will bring!

Lucas Bulger

Lucas grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, playing ultimate for Great River School and the Minnesota Superior Youth Club program. He earned his Bachelor's in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 2019, and currently works as an Environmental Planner for a private engineering firm. Lucas has played and coached ultimate for club teams in the Twin Cities, and is entering his fourth year coaching the Great River School program. In his free time, Lucas enjoys hiking, biking, cooking, and watching sports.

Leo Sovell-Fernandez

Leo graduated from GRS in 2018 and attended Middlebury College where he won a D3 national championship! Leo has also played frisbee with Team USA, club teams Sub Zero and Drag'n Thrust, and is currently working at MNU. Leo has many years of experience in schools, camps, and youth programs, and is excited to be joining the Stars coaching group!

Ian Bromander

Joe Cregan

I grew up about a mile north of Great River in the Como neighborhood. My dad taught me how to throw a disc on the windy shores of the Apostle Islands as a kid. I learned to play ultimate as a high school student at Great River, graduating in 2013. I went on to play college ultimate at the University of Minnesota here in the Twin Cities, and continue to play ultimate year round. I coached one of Great River’s middle school teams the past two seasons, but decided to join the high school program this year as an Open Junior Varsity coach. In the spring of 2019 I started substitute teaching at Great River, and then later took a position as a Lower Adolescent Special Education Guide, which allowed me to build relationships with almost all of the students who are in the high school program.  Although I moved on from teaching at the end of last school year, I’m grateful I can stay connected to the GRS community through coaching. I’m excited that Great River has a dedicated Open JV team again and I’m looking forward to the upcoming season!

Noah Hanson

Noah's Ultimate journey began right here at GRS. After graduating in 2018, Noah went to Carleton College where he played on CUT, the school's historic division 1 team. Now Noah plays professionally for the Minnesota Wind Chill and is a captain of the club team Minneapolis Sub Zero. Noah also leads ultimate camps through the Loppet Foundation and the Wind Chill and is very excited to develop the youth scene even further this year.